131
Total.
MAGISTERIAL ENQUIRIES INTO DEATHS.
TABLE 4.-RETURN OF ALL DEATHS REPORTED DURING THE YEAR 1894.
FORMAL ENQUIRIES HELD.
BURIED WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls.
Very much decomposed;
sex not
acertainable.
NATIONALITY.
Europeans and Americans,
8
1
9
4
:
Indians and Malays,..
6
6
4
:
4
4
Japanese,
I
:
1
T
•
:
Chinese,..
49
3
3
2
57
111
15
129
102
8
365
Total,........................
64
3
2 73
119
15 129
102
8
373
Total for 1893, .
49
9
10
5
4 67
82
15 124 86
9
316
Chinese.
TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1894.
FINDING.
Europeans and Americans.
Indians.
Japanese.
Accidental death,
Accidental death from burning,
Accidentally drowned,
Total.
Men.
Boys.
Men.
Men. Men. Women. Boys.
Girls.
7
1
10
1
•
2
--
1
3
1
:
...
:
14
:
:
1
...
::
:
:
:
++
1
...
Death by asphyxia caused by self hanging,
Death by a bullet wound maliciously inflicted by some
person unknown,
Death by drowning,
Death by drowning on the occasion of a collision between the boat on board of which the deceased was and the Steam-launch Hang Mui in the Harbour of Shaukiwan,
Death by drowning on the occasion of a collision between the boat on board of which the deceased was and the Steam-launch Charles May in Victoria Harbour, Death by injuries received from a fall from the roof of No. 1 Wa Lane while an entry under warrant was being made by the Police into Houses Nos. 4 and 6, Wa On Lane,..............
Death from an overdose of Opium,
Death from an overdose of Morphia self administered,
the overdose being probably due to an accident, Death from exhaustion consequent upon dysentery and
phthisis,
Death from fracture of skull,
Death from injuries received through burns or suffocation, Death from injuries from a bullet wound self inflicted,....... Death from moist gangrene following on the amputation
of a leg which appears to have been broken by falling down some steps while running away from some pursuers who had been called upon by a woman named A Tsoi to beat him, Death from injuries received from a landslip. The jury desire to add that in their opinion no blame attaches to the Public Works Department in connection with the deaths, but they would like to suggest that earth cutting might be placed under some kind of supervision whether on private or public property with a view to prevent the recurrence of similar fatalities,..........
Death from natural causes, ....................
:
:
:
1
1
}
1
:
1
A
:
:
2
1
1
1
14
:
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
Carried forward,................
6
1
2
::
:
44
:
3
1
8
ob H
27
2
2
1
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